Music & Drama – (B.A.)

This is a three-year full-time degree programme. It offers scholarly and practical education in Western musicianship and theatre, drama and film through history, theory and practical performance. The programme is designed to prepare you for many avenues, including musical and dramatic performance, composition, ethno/musicology, dramatic writing, art journalism, postgraduate study, and many non-music fields in which good critical judgement and teamwork play a vital role. You study theatre, drama and film through history, theory and practical performance. About one third of your time focuses on music, another third on drama, and another third on inter-disciplinary topics such as Music Theatre or Music and Film. Throughout the three years, you can choose from a wide variety of course units.

The course aims to:

provide the opportunity for both single and interdisciplinary study of music, theatre and film as cultural process, artistic discourse and performance event through intellectual and creative investigation;

encourage a rich cross-fertilisation of ideas, concepts and practices between the disciplines of music and drama;

stimulate and support the student's individual development as scholar and practitioner within both music and drama, with particular reference to abilities of independent evaluation and research, critical analysis, technical and artistic skills, and effective written and oral communication;

encourage the analysis and use of technology as applicable to the study of music, theatre and film as creative practices;

equip students with a range of transferable skills, appropriate to later postgraduate academic and vocational study, and also engagement in the workplace in a wide range of careers in the disciplines of music, drama and related fields.